Jamal Crawford joins NBC's broadcast team

NBC secured a deal with Jamal Crawford, sources briefed on the discussions said Tuesday. The contracts aren’t signed yet, nor is Crawford’s exact place on NBC’s depth chart fully defined, but he is expected to call games, per the sources.

Source: New York Times

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Jamal Crawford: Bro, this man was up at 6:00 in the morning, on the track. Then he’d have breakfast, then he’d be in the gym working out by 8:00 in the morning. After that, he’d have lunch and hit the weight room. Then, after a short break, he was back at it—getting shots up. He was working out three or four times a day. I’m like, ‘Damn, this is actually harder than I thought it was gonna be.’ So I’m sitting there thinking, ‘Man, I came here for this? I came here to get my ass kicked?’ You know what I’m saying? I thought he was just gonna show me a couple of hang dribbles. But no, it was enlightening to see someone like that work as hard as he did and make the game look so easy. Dudes like y’all, when you go back to the passing—bro, I’ve never seen somebody who’s really smart who couldn’t pass. And I’ve never seen someone who could really pass who wasn’t smart. -via YouTube / December 10, 2024

Jamal Crawford: He was so cold, bro. I went to his house, played with him there, and he showed me around his house. Like, he really invested in me. He even tried to trade for me. Yeah, he even got my eye doctor for LASIK surgery. He’s the one that told me to go get it done. I flew to Alabama because that’s where Dr. Andrews was at the time, back when he wasn’t the big Dr. Andrews we all know now. He did my surgery. -via YouTube / December 10, 2024

Jamal Crawford: "I’m saying, no, they were, bro. Honestly, I never once—and I was with them for five years—I never once saw those two have a blow-up. That’s what was weird about it. Like, I never once saw them just go at each other—not in a film session, not in a meeting, not in any of that. It was more so like we didn’t really talk about those things. If there was something, it was never like an 'air out' session with those two. It was none of that. So, you know what I’m saying, it was always like, 'Weird, like damn,' because it was never like, 'Oh, that’s why they’re mad at each other. That doesn’t work because of that.' It was never that. So, that’s why it was weird. -via YouTube / December 10, 2024

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